Painkiller · Judas Priest

165 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PAINKILLER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 43 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 17 sections: 93 keep time, 49 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-84.

PART D
PART J
PART W
CHORUS 5
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJWATU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Painkiller?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Painkiller hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Painkiller?

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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